Empire Name
Zorphax confederacy
Phenotype
Arthropoid
Species
Species Name
Zorphax
Ship Prefix
Z.C.N. Zorphax Confederate Navy
Homeworld Class
Ocean World
Homeworld Name
Atlantia
Home Star Name
Titania
Traits
Sedentary (-50 migration time)
Strong
Resilient
Enduring (+30 leader lifespan)
Ethos
Fanatic Xenophile
Individualist
Government Type
Moral Democracy
Starting Weapons
Missises
Starting FTL Method
Warp Travel
Empire Description
The origins of the Zorphax lead up to an event 50 million years ago. A series of comets impacted the planet and caused tidal waves all over the planet, many of the islands were fully submerged in water, with 95% of all life on land killed.Tectonic activity was also triggered, with thousands of volcanoes across the planet erupting and releasing a layer of ash.
This all led up to about a total of 90% of life being killed, with the global food chain in taters. It was a miracle that the ancestors of the Zorphax had survived.
Though they did and they thrived, with the high levels of oxygen and lack of natural predators, the Zorphax grew from the average height of 20 cm, to 1 and a half meters. Another miracle that helped the Zorphax survive, was the ability to Photosynthesis but with out the light energy required. This used the high levels of Co2 and water to make oxygen, meaning that the Zorphax could live underwater nearly indefinitely with them being able to recycle the Co2 and O2, the only major problem was if they drowned.
With this, the Zorphax spread out across the world and settled on the archipelago of Islands, forming wide and distinct nations and cultures. it was in one of the larger island chains Galapagos (Pretty much Indonesia), where civilization started. As a variety of republics that traded and attacked each other, slavery was highly used and the noble family's no longer content with being merchants declared them selves kings. This happened over thousands of years with multiple nations rising and falling in till 0 KO, where the Kariatch Volcano exploded, the nations were set into pandemonium, in till a prophet arrived, his name was Warp.
Speaking of gods will, he went around doing miracle acts and saving the Zorphax from extinction. The kings and queens of the nations were deposed and the place was offered to the prophet. Who refused, stating that it would be against gods will if he came into control and said that the various nations should untie into a confederacy, where everyone had equal rights, in a true republic. The nations united and agreed and stayed in prosperity, in till 50 years later where Warp died, he told his followers not to praise him and call him their god, but to call him a fellow man and respect others for their beliefs and to ban slavery, something that he had campaigned for but had failed.
After he died, the Confederacy was in chaos over what to do, eventually after a few years of chaos, it was said that the Confederacy should spread across the world uplifting the natives and bringing them up to a standard of civilization and to follow the prophets last words of guidance and free all slaves. It took years but after many failed attempts, a armada was made that could deal with anything that the ocean could send at it. Spreading across the world, the armada encountered other civilizations, some on par with the confederacy, others in a primitive state of nature.
There culture spread across the world, with new technology making it viable, the steam engine making steam ships and factories possible. An agricultural revolution that increased crop output by 100%, electricity that gave power to the masses, banning the last verged of the dark ages to the past, and more wonderful inventions that are too many to name.
This progressed fine in till a man named Fegelein seized control through a riot in the capitol. With the military on his side, Fegelein went on a conquest, seeking world domination. A bloody world war started that nearly ended up with Fegelein winning, if it wasn't for Vladimir Trotsky, one of the generals in the army, who wanted a return to the republic. Using a invention called the atom bomb, with with a few scientists that disliked Fegeleins racial genocide, they dropped the bomb over the Battleship that housed Fegelein and wiped him out ending his regime.
Vladimir set up a Warpist system, that believed in equal rights for the common populace and also set up a system of social schemes, with a living wage, a natinol health service and pensions for the old. He also gave people the freedom of speech and united the world under his confederacy, through peace and diplomacy, not arms and war. Due to this Vladimir was elected minister of the confederacy, for the next 50 years up to today.
But the Zorphax nation stands on a new era, the invention of the warp drive makes FTL and inter star travel possible. People wish to explore the cosmos. But the Zorphax race must be vigilant, some of Fegeleins supporters still live and may flee to colonies and rebel and who knows what life is out there, how horrible and warlike it may be.
Or the Zorphax may become like the many other species in the galaxy, extinct
